This study uses Tu Youyou winning the Nobel Prize as an example to help understand scientific events in a variety of media platforms, such as traditional media and social media communications. Content analysis method is used to analyze traditional media and social media news reports. It’s easy to find in the research that social media pays higher attention than that of traditional media in this regard. The timeliness found on social media is pretty shorter than that of traditional media, but topics fade very quickly. As regards what they are concerned about, the event of issues are also different, traditional media are more biasedly congratulated where the public spread science knowledge. Social media platforms are more inclined to science communication in the “human” participation and controversial issue, meanwhile, social media science texts presented on quality, depth of content, and issues affecting traditional media, its role in science communication should not be ignored.